Parenting and micromanaging
…children often move so slowly that impatience gets the best of us and we start putting on their shirts, their pants, and their shoes when they’re perfectly capable of doing it themselves. But just as often, it’s because we want to spare them difficulty. Our desire to do so, however, is clearly as misguided as it is understandable. How, after all, did we learn to succeed at challenging tasks except by having the chance to fail at them, by learning to tolerate our own frustration so that we could channel it into trying again?
NOTES
At work micromanaging might happen for the opposite reason; not because we want to spare them the difficulty, but because we want to make sure the job is done properly as it may have repercussions on a lot of things, and as they themselves are being measured by superiors (in contrast it also has repercussions on parents mostly to do with them being in a rush)
Are managers prepared to tolerate failure…perhaps it depends on what the task is?
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